The captain of the gendarmerie saw Leon get off the plane, raised his legs and walked to Leon, and saluted: "Sorry, Colonel Leon, please hand over your matching gun, and then go to the war department with us." "
Hearing this, Leon untied the armed belt and handed it into the hands of the gendarme, and then walked to Sophia under everyone's eyes, bowed his head and said in her ear: "If you want to know why I would rather shoot that officer than insist on that seemingly traitorous decision, go to the outskirts to find Lieutenant Colonel Gust and ask him to come to the war department to meet me, I think you must know him." After saying that, Lyon followed the gendarmes to the city of Berlin.
Lieutenant General Strauss was already waiting in Lyon's office, and when he saw Lyon following the gendarmerie in, he waved his hand to signal the gendarme to retreat. Then angrily yelled at Leon: "Bastard! Why did you sign such an agreement with the USSR without authorization? Do you understand how much money such a huge railway network will cost us? You also shot a major, you are treason! "
Leon was not angry, looked into Lieutenant General Strauss's eyes and said: "Lieutenant General, I made this decision on the interests of the country, and in order to develop the Air Force, we can only cooperate with the Soviet Union." "
Lieutenant General Strauss shook his head: "You are doing this for yourself!" I shouldn't have brought you to the War Department in the first place, but I still have a chance to remedy this mistake, gendarme! Take Leon down, tomorrow I will personally send him to a court-martial! "
But no one outside the door responded, and Lieutenant General Strauss shouted again suspiciously: "Gendarmerie! Hurry up and come in and take Leon away! "
As soon as Lieutenant General Strauss's voice fell, the door was pushed open, but it was not the gendarmes who walked in, but Guderian, Rommel and Gust, who came in and saluted Lyon: "Hello! Sir! "
Leon smiled and saluted the three in return, "Hello! Then he smiled and said to Lieutenant General Strauss: "Mr. Lieutenant General, I'm afraid your gendarmes have been disarmed." "
Lieutenant General Strauss slumped limpably in his chair and muttered, "How come?" How would you have the opportunity to inform them? "
Leon smiled when he heard this, and said, "Thanks to the 'undercover' Miss Sophia you sent to me, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to inform my troops." "
Lieutenant General Strauss's face was full of disbelief: "How did you know that Sophia was sent by me to spy on you?!" How could Sophia listen to your orders? "
Leon laughed: "Sophia is not a qualified undercover agent, she is too emotional, and she will pass orders for me is my guess, obviously, I guessed correctly." "
Lieutenant General Strauss lowered his head in resignation, but then raised his head angrily: "I can lose, but Germany must not be destroyed in your hands!" "
Leon sighed and said: "You still don't understand the direction of the war, the future war is no longer a hedge for infantry, and even having an absolute number of tanks will not bring victory, but whoever occupies air supremacy wins half."
Guderian and others on the side were worthy of being famous German generals, and they immediately understood the importance of air supremacy for war, and couldn't help but admire Lyon's farsightedness more and more.
Lieutenant General Strauss was stunned, and then said with a bitter smile: "Well, maybe you are right, but what do you do with the congressional side?" Can you get Congress to agree to this agreement? "
Leon replied: "Marshal Hindenburg over there in Congress will figure it out." "
Lieutenant General Strauss looked directly at Leon and said, "It turns out that you have arranged everything a long time ago, and you even pulled the marshal onto the chariot." "
Leon nodded: "I have been in contact with the marshal for a long time, but I only thought about cooperation with the Soviet Union, and I only informed him yesterday, and in exchange for his support for me, Porsche and I will fully support him in running for the next president." "
Yes, another telegram sent by Lyon yesterday was addressed to Marshal Hindenburg.
Lieutenant General Strauss lowered his head: "You win, kill or kill whatever you want." "
Leon waved his hand: "No, why should I kill you?" After all, it was you who brought me into the war department, I have the opportunity to stand here, I only need you to sign this agreement, and then hand over the power in your hands, you are still Lieutenant General Strauss, of course, you can refuse, but I cannot guarantee your life. After speaking, he put a protocol with him in front of Lieutenant General Strauss.
"Do I still have a choice?" Lieutenant General Strauss said with a wry smile, and then signed his name on this seemingly traitorous agreement.
"You were cultivated by me, I understand your ability, although I don't understand why you suddenly signed such an agreement with the Soviet Union, but maybe I don't have enough vision." Lieutenant General Strauss paused and continued: "Whether you are doing this for yourself or really for the Wehrmacht, I hope you will treat this army well. I'm old, I can't see the road ahead, and the future is up to you! "
Leon looked at Lieutenant General Strauss's gray sideburns and realized that the general who had been fighting Germany was old.
Lieutenant General Strauss was already very old when they first met four years ago, and had exhausted his efforts for the Wehrmacht for four years. Lyon gave a standard German military salute and said seriously: "You are a great man and deserve the respect of all of us!" But sorry, the Wehrmacht needs bolder leaders. "
Lieutenant General Strauss stood up and returned the military salute: "I have handed over the Wehrmacht to you, please treat it kindly." The old man, who had dedicated himself to the Wehrmacht, trembled his lower lips and continued with a little pleading: "Also, please treat Sophia well, she is my daughter." She doesn't have a mother, I haven't been with her properly since I was a child, and I beg you as an old father not to embarrass her. "
Leon's heart was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, he really did not expect that Sophia would be Strauss's daughter, and he always thought that it was an accident that Sophia and the general had the same surname. But what father would use his daughter as bait.
Lieutenant General Strauss looked at Leon's strange expression, guessed what Leon was thinking, and hurriedly explained: "You don't think Sophia was sent by me to seduce you, right?" Sophia is an undercover agent I sent, but I never thought of using my daughter to woo you. "
Leon listened to this explanation and finally understood why Sophia was so far-fetched about her temptation at the beginning, she blushed as soon as she teased her, it turned out that people were not the bait she thought of at all, and the reason why she seduced Leon was all out of the girl's mischievous mentality.
Leon didn't dare to look at Lieutenant General Strauss again, not only did he want to be crooked, but he also kept teasing people's daughters, if Lieutenant General Strauss knew, I was afraid he would kill me, right?
Lieutenant General Strauss looked at Leon's evasive gaze, and gradually some bad feelings surfaced in his heart, and hurriedly said: "What happened to Sophia?" Why do I have this expression when I say Sophia is my daughter? Could it be that..."
When Leon heard this, he immediately waved his hand repeatedly: "No, no, I guessed that she was your daughter haha... I still have something to see Marshal Hindenburg, so I left first. After saying that, he took Guderian and others and a group of soldiers and hurriedly ran away.
Lieutenant General Strauss looked at the fading back of Leon and the others, and sat silently in his chair, and the sunset outside the window reflected boundless loneliness on him.
Young people always step on the corpses of their ancestors and climb up.